quotations about passion
We may refute errors, but never passions.
ALEXANDRE RUDOLPHE VINET
Outlines of Theology
Passion is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
ROBERT SOUTH
Twelve Sermons
People love what other people are passionate about.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
La La Land
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
GRAHAM GREENE
Conversations with Graham Greene
There is not, in philosophy, a subject of more nice speculation than this of the different causes and effects of the calm and violent passions. It is evident passions influence not the will in proportion to their violence, or the disorder they occasion in the temper; but on the contrary, that when a passion has once become a settled principle of action, and is the predominant inclination of the soul, it commonly produces no longer any sensible agitation. As repeated custom and its own force have made every thing yield to it, it directs the actions and conduct without that opposition and emotion, which so naturally attend every momentary gust of passion. We must, therefore, distinguish betwixt a calm and a weak passion; betwixt a violent and a strong one. But notwithstanding this, it is certain, that when we would govern a man, and push him to any action, it will commonly be better policy to work upon the violent than the calm passions, and rather take him by his inclination, than what is vulgarly called his reason. We ought to place the object in such particular situations as are proper to encrease the violence of the passion. For we may observe, that all depends upon the situation of the object, and that a variation in this particular will be able to change the calm and the violent passions into each other. Both these kinds of passions pursue good, and avoid evil; and both of them are encreased or diminished by the encrease or diminution of the good or evil. But herein lies the difference betwixt them: The same good, when near, will cause a violent passion, which, when remote, produces only a calm one. As this subject belongs very properly to the present question concerning the will, we shall here examine it to the bottom, and shall consider some of those circumstances and situations of objects, which render a passion either calm or violent.
DAVID HUME
"Of the Causes of the Violent Passions", A Treatise of Human Nature
Passion is a starter. It gives you enough motivation to get going. I would advise that you don't "go-out-to-sea" without it.... However, it is important to move from raw to refined passion (it means making raw passion practical and useful). Raw passion is short term. Refined passion has every element of the raw, plus the added advantage of long term, boredom-proof, consistent action. It's not tied to emotional fluctuation. This is the forte of professionals.
SAMUEL MPAMUGO
"Raw passion can harm go-getters", The Kenya Star, November 19, 2016
Behold, O Lord, that I am
indignant with myself,
for my senseless, profitless,
hurtful, perilous passions;
that I loathe myself,
for these inordinate, unseemly,
deformed, false,
shameful, disgraceful
passions;
that my confusion is daily before me,
and the shame of my face hath covered me.
Alas! woe, woe!
O me, how long?
LANCELOT ANDREWES
The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes
Our passions are the keys of our frame, played upon by external objects.
RICHARD MALTRAVERS
The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers
The great attraction and the great danger of passion is that it is something outside of oneself, a strong wind from nowhere in the face of which the forest of everyday thought and behavior cannot stand.
DAN SIMMONS
Lovedeath
Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Passion
Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Written on the Body
Passion is the most essential part of any team. Not in the sense of some kind of pre-match team speech to get everyone riled up and ready to go. When pundits really analyse on the topic of passion, and really emphasise the importance it had on one game or another, it is not because of its presence but its lacking.
ADAM HILSENRATH
"The fundamentals of sporting passion", Cherwell Online, December 4, 2016
Passion is never bad. It just needs to be channeled correctly.
ROB MORRISON
"Has your passion for your brand become a distraction?", Marketing Mag, November 23, 2016
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you directly to your purpose.
ANONYMOUS
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
For an individual, success comes from wrapping your natural behavioral style and talents around a passion in your life. We like to call it your mint chocolate chip. When you are passionate about what you do and deliver it naturally, you are going to excel at it and get rewarded for it. You stop living vanilla ice cream. Because without passion in your life, your natural style is not focused. Without your natural style, your passion is not enjoyed.
STEVE VAN REMORTEL
"Adviser: Stop living vanilla ice cream", Green Bay Press Gazette, December 1, 2016
Passion is often hailed as the minimum requirement of any team. Its importance rarely understated, pundits, managers and players alike declare the desire, the drive, the hunger that their teams can and will display or, in the case of defeat, that they lacked.
ADAM HILSENRATH
"The fundamentals of sporting passion", Cherwell Online, December 4, 2016